> Graceful degradation is a term already in wide use in Web standards.
It is
> not something we should attempt to redefine.
>
It may be widely used in Web standards, but one of the 4.2 issues was
a request for us to explain what we meant by it! And what we are
requiring appears to be a bit stronger; it says that the functionality
should not degrade if only the baseline technologies are available.
Should we include the term as part of the baseline definition? I would
not recommend removing the explanation.